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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
trump's pentagon: www.wired.com/story/a-pent...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Among the first to appear before the judge was Angel, a 13-year-old. He had no attorney. “Would you like to request voluntary departure, or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked “I don’t know,” Angel said, bursting into tears: “I have no one. I have nothing.” www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...
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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/10/2026
🚨 NEWS: A 28-year-old researcher at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected lab accident in Siberia. Nearly 200 people are reportedly under observation and hospitals have been quarantined amid concerns over possible pneumonic plague.
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Russian Lab Worker Dies After Suspected Plague Accident as Quarantines Expand
A 28-year-old worker at a Russian anti-plague institute has died following a suspected laboratory accident in Siberia, with nearly 200 people under observation and conflicting accounts emerging from R...
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Nick Benson @ottergoose.net · 03/10/2026
Of recent interest here in Minnesota is that ICE is releasing detainees to satisfy Habeas requests, and then immediately detaining again. This really ought to be national news.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
Ellison nails Schutz after he admits he's never taken a case for a client who didn't align w/ his personal views: "It is the job of the AG to defend laws sometimes you don't agree w/ if those laws are constitutional" (Note that Schutz then initially stammers about if abortion access is settled law)
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 30/09/2026
Facts matter.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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NPR @npr.org · 28/09/2026
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal. n.pr/4iMlJdT
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What to know about the $810 million in spending canceled by President Trump
President Trump announced plans to cancel $810 million in Congressionally approved spending, a move that some in his own party are calling illegal.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"About five million people in the country have already lost SNAP benefits — the government’s primary anti-hunger tool — because of the Trump/GOP bill... One retiree in Ohio described SNAP benefits as a 'lifeline.' Her benefits dropped in March from $250 to $44" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/u...
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Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Is Starting to Bite Before the Midterm Elections
The tax cuts in President Trump’s signature achievement were the Republicans’ answer to voters’ economic struggles, but its health care and food assistance cuts are taking a toll.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
ANOTHER death in ICE detention which appears likely to be the result of medical neglect. A diabetic who told his family members he wasn't receiving regular insulin shots OR getting diabetic-appropriate meals just died in custody. The U.S. prison-ICE detention-industrial complex kills.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“A month before Election Day 2024, the New York Times reported that the US job market was 'as healthy as it has ever been'. A few days later, The Washington Post’s Heather Long explained, 'We are living through one of the best economic years of many people’s lifetimes'.” www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Republicans’ midterm strategy hinges on rewriting the recent past
The more the GOP tries to overwhelm voters’ memories, the more we’re reminded just how spectacularly the party has failed over the past two years.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 17/09/2026
There’s a lot going on right now, and Susan Collins is hoping voters won’t notice that she was the deciding vote in confirming another anti-abortion Trump judge to a lifetime appointment.
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Susan Collins Casts Major Anti-Abortion Vote 6 Weeks Out From Election
The Maine senator voted in favor of a Donald Trump judicial nominee who served on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy center.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the past six days six right-aligned pollsters have begun "flooding the zone," releasing eighteen polls in eleven battleground Senate races. While they've done this before the pace and intensity of this effort is unprecedented, a reflection of their desperation. 1/
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 17/09/2026
4:1. That’s what the spend ratio on the air against me has been this year thanks to my opponent's Super PAC. The attack ads are funded by a Wisconsin billionaire who thinks he can buy this race. Minnesota isn’t for sale. Help us fight back — donate at amyklobuchar.com.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
The Trump administration wants to build its 250-foot arch near one of the country's busiest runways. The FAA will determine whether that poses a hazard. But independent experts already have concerns. n.pr/4xBhCFf
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D.C. airspace is complicated. Experts say Trump's arch would add one more risk
The Trump administration wants to build its 250-foot arch near one of the country's busiest runways. The FAA will determine whether that poses a hazard. But independent experts already have concerns.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
The driver said he was shaken by a violent encounter at a rest stop, which he described as unprovoked. n.pr/4cO0m8a
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A Sikh truck driver is stabbed amid a rise in anti-South Asian rhetoric
The driver said he was shaken by a violent encounter at a rest stop, which he described as unprovoked.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trumpists are holding back COVID vaccines for poor kids, and only for poorer kids. Monsters they are. Monsters.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 17/09/2026
Pipestone National Monument preserves active and sacred quarries that Native people have used for thousands of years. But now a proposed federal rule change could make it easier for the government to disregard Native voices in discussions over projects near sites sacred to Native people.
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Federal rule change may pressure Minnesota’s historic Pipestone quarry, advocates warn
Preservation advocates are lining up against a proposed federal rule change that could affect how the nation cares for historic places, including the Pipestone quarry, a southwestern Minnesota site sa...
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Start your day with my newest piece for @atrupar.com Public Notice about the need for Mitch to retire—now. Read and plz share. Thx! open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Retire in peace
McConnell is the latest example of an incapacitated politician refusing to let go.
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NPR @npr.org · 17/09/2026
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. n.pr/4Ak7inF
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U.N.-backed experts cite possible U.S. war crimes in Iran, including a school attack
Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab.
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Facility staff said detainees were not locked in the enclosures, but federal investigators found locking mechanisms on them..." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Used Small Cages to Confine Migrants, DHS Watchdog Report Says
The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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NPR @npr.org · 15/09/2026
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Environmental groups say this will impact the climate and public health. n.pr/4Aw2pYX
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Trump's EPA repeals pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants
The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Environmental groups say this will impact the climate and public health.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Atlantic Industrial Coatings, the contractor that renovated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, admits errors in its own work and flaws in the repair plan, NOT VANDALISM, caused the pool’s blue liner to peel and break loose. Atlantic is being paid $14.7 million. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/c...
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Blames Its Own Repairs, Not Vandals, for Damage
The contractor said the pool’s new blue liner peeled and tore because of “human oversight” and a flawed plan that involved layering two incompatible chemicals, documents show.
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Brandi Buchman @brandibuchman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After Pretti was killed, Savageford, who is Asian-American, said she was taken to a warehouse near the Whipple detention center where immigrants were being detained. She was strip-searched, including by male agents who Cook told HuffPost on Friday were “touching her privates.”
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Get in, folks: a new Russian disinfo campaign is targeting the midterms, specifically Democrats, in what seems to be the first attempt by the Kremlin-backed op to meddle in this year’s U.S. elections. They're faking celebrity videos attacking Dems and are...very stupid. www.ms.now/news/russia-...
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A Russian disinformation campaign is doctoring celebrity videos to meddle in the midterms
The Kremlin-backed operation, known as Matryoshka, has Hollywood actors telling voters to disavow the Democratic Party and vote Republican.
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League of Women Voters of the US @lwv.org · 10/09/2026
The First Circuit Court of Appeals today kept in place through the Nov. 3 election a preliminary injunction blocking the US Postal Service from enforcing key parts of a new rule that would significantly interfere with mail voting if implemented: bit.ly/4dv45Yt
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Appeals Court Maintains Preliminary Injunction Blocking US Postal Service from Enforcing Key Parts of New Rule to Restrict Mail Ballots | League of Women Voters
The First Circuit Court of Appeals kept in place an injunction blocking key parts of a new USPS mail ballot rule through the November election.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump and the Republican Party’s $100 billion tax on all Americans.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 08/09/2026
For over a year, millions of us have come together to declare that America has no kings. We made our voices heard in the streets, and we made history with the three largest protests in our country’s history.  Now, it’s time to take the next step.
NO KINGS No THRONES No CROWNS
VOTE EARLY
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 03/09/2026
Republicans across the country, like Ashley Hinson, are using your money to fund their extravagant lifestyles. meidasnews.com/news/ashley-hinson-s…
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Ashley Hinson Spent Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars of Campaign Funds on Luxury Trips, Fine Dining
After telling her constituents she feels the pain of working moms
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Paid political influencers are highly effective propagandists. Which is why Pete Hegseth is paying them to manipulate other Americans in state-funded, prev undisclosed influence ops. Gift link: wapo.st/4x0p3pf
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Pentagon secretly installs military influencers in civilian roles
Conservative veterans with large social media followings have been hired by the Defense Department and are amplifying Pete Hegseth’s culture-war fights.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 27/08/2026
“Reportedly, at least seven Black people have been discovered hanged this calendar year; in almost all of them, local law enforcement quickly ruled them suicides before an autopsy had been performed and without any real investigation into the circumstances.” @shalisemyoung.bsky.social writes more:
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Strange Fruit, Still. Still.
There is a long, dark history of lynching of Black Americans in this country, primarily in the former Confederate states
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This morning in Danbury, ICE was arresting parents at school bus stops. But it’s more sinister. ICE waited until the kids were on the bus so when they are dropped off at the end of the day, they are alone, scared to death they can’t find their parents. I’m heading to Danbury.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/08/2026
A young mother of four was found hanging from a tree in Mississippi. Now a local council member is calling for a federal investigation into Tasia Fortune’s death. Her case comes as questions still surround the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells. Suri Crowe reports.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
CBP can do this thanks to the REAL ID Act of 2005, which authorized the DHS Secretary to "waive all laws" (yes, ALL laws) that the Secretary deems interfere with the expeditious construction of border walls. Seriously. It's a bad authority that should be nixed. www.sierraclub.org/borderlands/...
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Real ID Waiver Authority Compromises Our Borderlands
Border walls, barriers and roads have been built without regard for the rule of law. Dozens of federal laws protecting land, air, water, wildlife, public health, religious freedom and more have been c...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
He doesn't give a damn about our service members. What a disgrace.
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Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships
Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 14/08/2026
The Trump administration is trying to get rid of an anti-corruption & money laundering law. Given that the president is a convicted white-collar criminal, this isn’t very surprising.
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The Trump Regime Just Made it Easier to Hide Money
The Justice Department won't enforce strong rules to prevent bad actors from hiding money from law enforcement and tax authorities.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
NEWS: Trump dismisses concerns from military families about deplorable conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, then says their record-long deployment is “not nearly long enough” before heading to his private club in Bedminster.
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Trump Dismisses Sailors’ Nightmare Deployment as He Escapes to His Private Club
As sailors endure a record-setting deployment marked by reports of food shortages, exhaustion and dire conditions, Trump dismissed their families’ concerns before heading to his private club.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🚨 Yet ANOTHER study finds "NO evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime." There has NEVER been evidence to support this racist BS❗ Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41... via @nature.com
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Their dusty work boots were off to the side. One pair had an American flag on it. I also spoke with families who knew someone held inside. ICE isn’t going after the worst of the worst in San Antonio. They’re targeting hardworking folks who are trying to make an honest living for their families.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I just finished an unannounced inspection of the San Antonio ICE Check-In facility. I saw 40 men packed into 2 holding rooms. Most had been picked up in the morning, on their way to work.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/08/2026
NEWS: Trump promised gas under $2. Now he tells Americans getting crushed by $4 gas that "it's okay" and he "won't apologize" because he wanted to start a war with Iran.
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Trump Tells Americans Paying $4 for Gas to Suck It Up for His War
"I'll never apologize"
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...
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The Five Scandals Within the "Air Force One" Scandal
Donald Trump, a Catering Truck, and the Qatari "Air Force One" represent a Russian Nesting Doll of Scandal and Corruption
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Charging an innocent man is a sad day for this country Charging him again is something else entirely The prosecutors admitted it, the judge dismissed it, & the WH still wants Davey Hearn charged @kaitlancollins.bsky.social & I got into why DOJ should say NO👇 -TN
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
📌WHEN are people going to FINALLY understand that when the America-attacking General Bone Spurs calls our military "suckers and losers" he means it?
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Multiple USS Abraham Lincoln sailors have tried to go overboard amid extended deployment, families say
Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/08/2026
The Minnesota Secretary of State's Office reports that more than 1.1 million people cast primary ballots Tuesday, up from the previous record of 925,554 set in 2018.
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Minnesota primary votes topped 1.1M Tuesday, a new state record
While the total count was a record, Minnesota saw much higher primary turnout by percentage in the 1950s and '60s.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/08/2026
Minnesota made history on primary night. For the first time, all of the candidates for the top political offices in Minnesota are women.
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 12/08/2026
An all-woman lineup will lead party tickets in November, with DFL and Republican voters opting for female candidates in the open governor’s and U.S. Senate races.
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Governor, Senate nominees give Minnesota voters a choice between accomplished women
Voters are primed to elect the first woman as Minnesota governor and return a woman to a U.S. Senate seat that is open this fall.
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